LA TRACTION AVANT CITROËN SOUS L'UNIFORME TOME 2

The Citroën Traction Avant was the most produced car in France before 1940: more than 250,000 copies were on the roads of the country and around the world at that time. It is therefore logical to see it, during the Second World War, accompany armies as well as civilian populations on all fronts, in all countries, including the most remote. The omnipresence of this car is undoubtedly also due to its performance: modern and safe, it is used by the French army, especially as a requisition car, and perhaps even more so by the German army which employs massively in all its areas of intervention, and finally, by the resistance.

By supporting all travel needs related to the conflict, it became an essential player, from the pre-war period until the Liberation, then it responded to the new needs that appeared after 1945. It is found in everyday life, but also in great moments in history. It is this reality spread over a dozen years around the conflict that we discover through this set of period photographs, most of which have never been published.